Sarah Lapidus
Reporter at The Arizona Republic
Journalist , adventurer and lover of mountains. @Report4America corps member reporting for the Arizona Republic
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3 days ago |
azcentral.com | Sarah Lapidus
Cochise County will hold a new election this fall asking voters to levy a tax to fund a new jail, after a previous election was deemed invalid. The May 2023 election, which approved the tax, was challenged due to nearly 11,000 inactive voters not receiving ballots. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled the county disenfranchised those voters, leading to the new election. Cochise County will ask voters this fall to raise a tax to fund a new jail, more than two years after voters approved that tax.
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4 days ago |
azcentral.com | Sarah Lapidus
An Arizona appeals court ruled Tucson is liable for public nuisance caused by homeless encampments in Navajo Wash. The ruling overturns a 2024 superior court decision that sided with the city. It comes after residents sued, alleging unsanitary conditions and criminal activity. The appeals court found Tucson allowed encampments to persist despite knowing they caused a nuisance, contrasting with the city's removal of camps near schools and other areas.
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5 days ago |
usatoday.com | Sarah Lapidus
Longtime Nogales business owner David Moore Jr. remembers his father telling him how easy it was to make money in the border town when he opened his Western clothing store in 1980. “In those days, he says, when I opened the store … you could just hang your shingle out in front of the building and as long as you halfway paid attention, you'd be making money,” Moore recalled his father saying about a time when Morley Avenue was bustling and business was good.
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5 days ago |
azcentral.com | Sarah Lapidus
Businesses across southern Arizona are facing challenges due to changing federal policies, including tariffs. Uncertainty surrounding tariffs and other policies is causing concern among business owners. Some manufacturers are reconsidering operations in Mexico due to the changing political and economic landscape, impacting southern Arizona's import-export industry.
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1 week ago |
tucson.com | Sarah Lapidus
A Tohono O'odham girl growing up in the 1950s spent her formative years helping her farmworker family pick cotton in the fields in central Arizona. With a thirst for learning but few books at home, Ofelia Zepeda would play make-believe school with her siblings using discarded textbooks during the summer breaks when she wasn't working the fields. Years later, Zepeda would become a renowned poet and linguist, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Tohono O’odham language.
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